Entity
COORDINATOR Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingeniería Ambiental, Uruguai
LNEC
Universidade Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Description
Project to study the effect of climate change on coastal protection structures on urban fronts, with case studies in Portugal, Spain, Mexico and Uruguay. The risk on the urban front and possible changes in structures are analyzed in order to mitigate the effect of various climate change scenarios. Funded in the 1st Competition for Strategic Projects under the Regulation of Access to Financing Projects for Scientific Research and Technological Development of FCT.
Objectives
- Application of the methodology and tools developed in the project to three selected sites, one in each of the participating countries
- Quantify associated risk on urban fronts
- To establish general criteria and bases for the project of coastal protections in fronts with urban development
- Analyze experimentally (in laboratory and numerically) different types of coast protection and quantify overtopping
- Quantify the agents and intervening actions, considering their different scales and the expected scenarios of sea level rise
- Establish technical recommendations for the design, construction and management of these coastal protection structures facing climate change
- Develop a methodology for the design, construction and management of coastal protection structures on urban fronts facing climate change
Results
• Calculation methodology for the design and management of coastal protection structures on coastal urban fronts
• Technical recommendations for the design and management of coastal protection structures on coastal urban fronts
Next challenges
The project is in its initial phase, and the characterization of the agitation climate of the study areas has begun. After this phase, the possible scenarios of climate change will be analyzed, which will analyze the effects on coastal morphodynamics and the risk on the urban fronts. Based on the results of this phase different types of coastal protection structures will be studied using numerical and physical models, in order to minimize the risk in the study areas.